8BAA. Isla Groothoff was born in Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan, on Friday, October 16, 1903, and died in 1964. Her name was pronounced I'luh, the s was silent. Her husband was Ralph Kenyon She is the daughter of Theodore and Blanche (Winchester) Groothoff. They had one child:
| i. | _____ Kenyon: She died in infancy. |
As a child, Isla was diagnosed with hearing and learning disabilities and
attended the Webb Academy in Grand Rapids until 1915 went she was taken to
Middleville, Michigan, when her parents moved there.